Official name: Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία)
Other international names: Greece, Hellas
Capital: Athens (Αθήνα, Athens)
Area: 131 940 km2
Highest point: 2918 m - Mytikas (highest peak of the Olymp mountains)
Time zone: +2 GMT (Summertime + 1)
Inhabitans: approx. 11 millions
Official language: Greek
Religion: Orthodoxy (95%)
System of government: parliamentary republic
State establishment: 25. 3. 1821
Flag: 9 horizontal stripes (five blue and four white between them) with a white Greek cross in a blue field in the left upper corner
Currency: EURO (EUR)
Phone code: +30
National domain: .gr
National anthem: Ymnos is tin Eleftherian (Ode to freedom)
Neighbor states: Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey
Emergency call: 112